#FF90 is a support project for creation driven by Graner, initiated in 2019. It is a laboratory bringing together artists of the same generation (the 90s) to share a space-time together, think about it together, traverse it together, and practice it together, with various permeabilities and moments of dialogue with artists from other generations and contexts of openness.
In its 2020 edition, the project allocated spaces at Graner to the participating artists and facilitated a self-managed working framework for the group, which took place within the framework of the Festival Grec 2020.
During five days in July, (22nd-26th) the FF90 group lived together, sharing and engaging in dialogue about their practices, meals, and methodologies. They conversed (perhaps) about their works, their processes: talking/doing nothing specific to be able to talk/do all things. They moved around the rehearsal room, the terrace, took walks, or cooked an improvised recipe. An intimate space, yet with windows open, allowing words and things to escape and become many other things as well. This reunion, at times open and also nurturing, was a moment of conversation and embodiment of the expansion of contemporary scenic practices.
The FF90 meeting within the Festival Grec collectively explored shared practices around the concept of EXPANDED in the current context of live arts.
Thus, during the meeting days, a GLOSSARY on expanded practice in live arts was collectively created, diverse and multiple, proposing terms that allow us to approach the practices of others. It is already available on this same web entry.
To kick off the meeting and this glossary, a conversation was initiated with two voices on July 22, 2020: one voice from thinking and curating – Paula Caspão – and another from scenic creation and management – Tamara Cubas, who offered a broad and suggestive spectrum as a trigger for everything that happened in the following days. A virtual open conversation through the ZOOM platform.
This meeting included the participation of: Nico Jongen, Xavier Manubens, Pere Jou, Aurora Bauzà, Nacho de Antonio, Alejandro Curiel, Raquel Klein, Juan David Galindo, Lautaro Reyes, Ana Barroso, Javier Guerrero, Eulàlia Bergadà, Joaquín Collado, Lara Brown, Julián Pacomio, and with the accompaniment of Dianelis Diéguez.
To start the meeting, a video conversation was scheduled on Wednesday, July 22, 2020 between Paula Caspão and Tamara Cubas on the expanded concept.
Tamara Cubas, choreographer, visual artist, and Uruguayan cultural manager. She is the artistic co-director of the collective Perro Rabioso, with which she has developed various cultural projects related to dissemination, training, and artistic production such as FIVU, the International Videodance Festival of Uruguay, and the Videoteca in Montevideo. In recent years, she has focused on creation with Perro Rabioso, with works like ‘Trilogía Antropofágica’, ‘Multitud’, or ‘Puto Gallo Conquistador’. Her recurring themes are Memory, Power, the Political, the Other, and the Collective, through different formats.
Paula Caspão is a creator of fictions, based between Paris and Lisbon, after extensive work on ways of (dis)knowledge and having lived at the intersection of performance studies, expanded choreography, literature, and sciences. To emphasize the life/death forms involved in any circumstance of artistic research and/or composition, she described T-Fi Cabinet (around 2012), a non-institutional work field dedicated to all kinds of links between theory and fiction, from the most obvious and understandable to the most subtle and stealthy.
Her current work addresses specific practices and (im)material work that constitute the creation of the Museum, the Archive, and History. She is the author of Relations On Paper (2013) and has edited The Page As a Dancing Site (2014) and Pièces ASSEMBLÉES (2017).
Regarding institutional life, Paula is a researcher and guest professor at the University of Lisbon (FLUL), Center for Theater Studies (CET), and associated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), Nova University of Lisbon (UNL). She holds a PhD in Philosophy (epistemology and aesthetics) from the University of Paris-10 and has been a visiting researcher in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (2018).
From July 22 to 26, shared and intersecting practices of Eulàlia Bergadà, Javier Guerrero, Ignacio de Antonio Antón and Julián Pacomio, Raquel Klein and Xavier Manubens, Pere Jou and Aurora Bauzà, and Juan David Galindo (activities closed to the FF90 creators and guests).